Will this 2-probe oscilloscope produce an XY display?

This oscilloscope - the SainSmart DSO202 Digital Storage Oscilloscope - has at least 2 channels (probes). Would it be possible to get a combined XY display from it, using a sonic source, such as a WAV recording, directly input, or using a microphone please?

There are Tube videos for this unit but they all use one channel, giving fairly static wave form displays.

It's probably worth posting the question on youtube where you can be sure it will be seen by someone who owns the kit.

As far as I can judge, the 'scope has open source code and I can't see why it's not possible to have an x vs y display if someone wrote the code for it.

Thanks, am struggling - I'm a visual artist, I use technology. May have found a work-around. I can use a graticule oscilloscope as long as I disguise the detail optically; through experiment I can do this. For XY display (using any oscilloscope which has XY channels) I attach CH1 probe to the left stereo-out jack & CH2 to the right. In theory this should give me a dynamic XY Graph display but please correct me with regard to the dual probes if I am mistaken.

It will do the job if the scope has XY display facility. Picoscope and Hantek definitely do, and as I think I remarked earlier, Pico have been generous in the past with software help and mods, so should be no problem getting rid of the graticule and displaying on as large a screen as you like.

Other DSO systems are available - these are the only two I have used personally, and I've had less success with Hantek software mods.

It will do the job if the scope has XY display facility. Picoscope and Hantek definitely do, and as I think I remarked earlier, Pico have been generous in the past with software help and mods, so should be no problem getting rid of the graticule and displaying on as large a screen as you like.

Thanks, so Picoscope looks like the way to go, I hadn't considered 'scopes might not have an XY facility :-o

Have seen a GW Instek Oscilloscope with the following specifications. Does this confirm the XY display facility I need please?

Indeed, Pico, Hantek and other serious professional DSO plug-ins use a PC for control and display. The nice thing is that if you are serious about an art/entertainment installation, you can use the PC slave display output to drive a damn great projector.

Lissajous figures from raw stereo music are likely to be very messy but Pico software includes all sorts of filters, so you may be able to isolate the bass for a cleaner picture.

Funny how life has got more complicated and simpler at the same time. The old BBC "Tomorrow's World" introductory sequence (1965) had the music displayed on an analog scope and captured on cine film - it probably took about 20 minutes to rig the whole take, from stuff just lying around in every recording studio!

I did wonder why you had rejected Pico as it seems ideal. Iknow some people dislike the quantisation of the levels, but the pico has enough resolution for what you need.Like Alan I’ve used one of these - still have one in the spares box - and can agree with him that they are excellent tools.Let us know how you get on.

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Indeed, Pico, Hantek and other serious professional DSO plug-ins use a PC for control and display. The nice thing is that if you are serious about an art/entertainment installation, you can use the PC slave display output to drive a damn great projector.

Lissajous figures from raw stereo music are likely to be very messy but Pico software includes all sorts of filters, so you may be able to isolate the bass for a cleaner picture.

Funny how life has got more complicated and simpler at the same time. The old BBC "Tomorrow's World" introductory sequence (1965) had the music displayed on an analog scope and captured on cine film - it probably took about 20 minutes to rig the whole take, from stuff just lying around in every recording studio!

Thanks Alan, Colin, et al,

Am sorted for now, found an online scope & have corresponded with the author, but I may also go in for the Pico because it sounds so very flexible. I'm an amateur musician when not being an artist, you simply cannot get decent visualisation software, 'old-school' was coloured oil on water on OHP's, I have actually done that in the past but it's really a 'live' operation, it's not tailored to the pop video. The crucial thing is synching the visual to the sound, hence my interest in the oscilloscope. Windows do author some type of visualisation but only for 'aps', however I want to build my own. There is pc visualisation software out there but it is dire, forcing you to use other people's imagery 'by default', truly awful. The BBC were inspirational back in the day, like the music + visuals for the original Dr Who series. Funnily enough I also use cine film myself - as art, the entire filming process to me is art, whereas I use digital video as a tool, I dislike mixing the two.

As Alan says “Lissajous figures from raw stereo music are likely to be very messy”. You are basically creating vectorscope which is very useful in recording as you can see the phase relationship between the channels and monitor the effects of limiting.

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I'm an amateur musician when not being an artist, you simply cannot get decent visualisation software,

Takes me back to my early teenage when I made a sound to light unit. Different coloured lights for each frequency band.

Amazing I could not do that as an adult let alone as a teenager :-o I was always impressed with the Windows Media Player visualisations but I think Windows has dispensed with all that in Windows 10? Am not technical, my geekiness extends to plugging plugs into sockets 'to see what happens' and mercifully the current involved in most music-making hardware is user-friendly, I always err on the side of caution however

As Alan says “Lissajous figures from raw stereo music are likely to be very messy”. You are basically creating vectorscope which is very useful in recording as you can see the phase relationship between the channels and monitor the effects of limiting.

Never heard of a vectorscope, many thanks for that. All I'm really reaching for just now is the 'pulse' of the music, since you can't really do that in retrospect. Can't wait to fade some oscilloscope into my video, it will mean creating a musically synched 'scope video' to form the basis for all the other parts which are added onto it. Long-term though, I am recovering from a routine procedure so must take things steady - one of the reasons I left off picking up an old analogue 'scope, some of them are quite heavy - the virtual age has its advantages!